Buck Peters, foreman of Bar-20 Ranch had many cowboys; Pete Wilson, Red Connors, Billy Williams, Johnny Nelson, and a goodly number more, but chief among them was Hopalong Cassidy. Many interesting stories are told about him in “Bar-20 Days” but none of his thrilling experiences ever ended as did the one recited in this most […]

TODDLES, in the beginning, wasn’t exactly a railroad man–for several reasons. First he wasn’t a man at all; second, he wasn’t, strictly speaking, on the company’s pay roll; third, which is apparently irrelevant, everybody said he was a bad one; and fourth–because Hawkeye nicknamed him Toddles. Toddles had another name–Christopher Hyslop Hoogan–but Big Cloud never […]